Prof. Valeria Kleiman
Prof. Valeria Kleiman
New ICFOnians
New researchers have joined ICFO.
November 30, 2010
One Visiting Professor, Valeria Kleiman; five postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Tobias Fritz , Dr. Rafael Chaves Souto Araujo, Dr. Arup Kumar Rath, Dr. Dane Austin, and Dr. Ossi Kimmelma; one research engineer, Mr. Louis Gaudreau; five PhD students, Mr. Gonzalo de la Torre, Mr. Pablo Manuel de Roque, Mr. Francisco Pelayo Garcia de Arquer, Mrs. Michela Badioli, and Mr. Boris Albrecht; and one student, Mr. Eduard Benasques Borau, have joined ICFO.
Prof. Valeria Kleiman joins ICFO for a sabbatical year at the group led by ICREA Prof. Niek van Hulst. She is Professor of Chemistry at the Dept. of Chemistry of the University of Florida, USA. She specialized on ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy of light-harvesting and energy transfer systems, studying redistribution of the energy, loss of coherence, formation of intermediates, etc. At ICFO she will apply the recently developed ultrafast single molecule detection to supramolecular complexes and/or conjugated polymers.
Dr. Tobias Fritz received his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics at Bonn, Germany, in June 2010. He works on mathematical methods for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for quantum information. He joins ICFO as postdoctoral researcher in the group of Quantum Information Theory led by ICREA Prof. Antonio Acin. Dr. Fritz will be working on the characterization of spatial and temporal quantum correlations.
Dr. Rafael Chaves received his PhD from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2010. He specialized in the dynamical evolution of multipartite entangled states under noisy environments. He joins ICFO as postdoctoral researcher in the group of Quantum Information Theory led by ICREA Prof. Antonio Acin. Dr. Chaves will be working on the characterization of multipartite entanglement and quantum non-locality.
Dr. Arup Kumar Rath received his B.A.Sc. in physics from Vidyasagar University, India in 2003 and his M.A.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 2005 and 2010, respectively, from Jadavpur University, India. Dr. Rath has expertise in solution processed solar cells and organic memories. He joins ICFO as a postdoctoral researcher in the solution-processed nanophotonics group led by Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos to work on novel solar cell structures based on colloidal quantum dots.
Dr. Dane Austin holds a PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics from Oxford University, UK. He joins the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics group led by ICREA Prof. Jens Biegert to work on attosecond pulse generation, strong field physics and aspects of metrology.
Dr. Ossi Kimmelma holds a PhD in Science and Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He joins the group led by Prof. Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh to work oin the development of diode-pumped solid-state laser sources for the blue spectral range. He will study their deployment as pump sources for high-power continuous-wave optical parametric oscillators with wide spectral coverage across the visible spectrum for applications in spectroscopy, quantum optics, and biomedicine.
Mr. Louis Gaudreau is a PhD-candidate in Physics at NRC and University of Sherbrooke, Canada. He joins ICFO as a postdoctoral fellow in the Nano Opto-electronics group led by Prof. Frank Koppens to work on quantum mechanical phenomena in plasmonic structures and graphene.
Mr. Gonzalo de la Torre graduated in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2009. He made his Master studies at the QUANTOP group in Copenhagen under the supervision of Michael Wolf. He joins ICFO as PhD student in the group of Quantum Information Theory led by Antonio Acin. He will be working on the study of classical, quantum and non-signaling correlations and their application for information purposes.
Mr. Pablo Manuel de Roque joins ICFO after completing the Master in Photonics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He will work on control of spontaneous and stimulated emission in ordered and disordered nanostructures at he group led by ICREA Prof. Niek van Hulst.
Mr. Francisco Pelayo Garcia de Arquer graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Oviedo and has an MSc in Photonics at UPC/ICFO. Mr. Pelayo joins now the solution processed nanophotonics group led by Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos for a PhD in nanophotonics. He will investigate applications of optoelectronically active plasmonic structures for solar cells and ultra-sensitive optical sensing.
Mrs. Michela Badioli obtained her MSc. from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She joins ICFO as a PhD student in the Nano Opto-electronics group led by Prof. Frank Koppens. She will investigate strongly confined optical fields associated with a single layer of carbon (graphene).
Mr. Boris Albrecht studied Physics and Photonics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Strasbourg, France, and holds a MSc in nanophotonics from the University of Strasbourg. He joins ICFO as a PhD student in the group led by ICREA Prof. Hugues de Riedmatten. He will work on light matter quantum interfaces between single photons and single collective spin excitations in laser cooled atomic ensembles.
Mr. Eduard Benasques Borau is a student in Telecommunications Engineering at UPC, Barcelona, Spain. He will join the plasmon nano-optics group led by ICREA Prof. Romain Quidant to work on optical manipulation of nano-objects.
Prof. Valeria Kleiman joins ICFO for a sabbatical year at the group led by ICREA Prof. Niek van Hulst. She is Professor of Chemistry at the Dept. of Chemistry of the University of Florida, USA. She specialized on ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy of light-harvesting and energy transfer systems, studying redistribution of the energy, loss of coherence, formation of intermediates, etc. At ICFO she will apply the recently developed ultrafast single molecule detection to supramolecular complexes and/or conjugated polymers.
Dr. Tobias Fritz received his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics at Bonn, Germany, in June 2010. He works on mathematical methods for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for quantum information. He joins ICFO as postdoctoral researcher in the group of Quantum Information Theory led by ICREA Prof. Antonio Acin. Dr. Fritz will be working on the characterization of spatial and temporal quantum correlations.
Dr. Rafael Chaves received his PhD from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2010. He specialized in the dynamical evolution of multipartite entangled states under noisy environments. He joins ICFO as postdoctoral researcher in the group of Quantum Information Theory led by ICREA Prof. Antonio Acin. Dr. Chaves will be working on the characterization of multipartite entanglement and quantum non-locality.
Dr. Arup Kumar Rath received his B.A.Sc. in physics from Vidyasagar University, India in 2003 and his M.A.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 2005 and 2010, respectively, from Jadavpur University, India. Dr. Rath has expertise in solution processed solar cells and organic memories. He joins ICFO as a postdoctoral researcher in the solution-processed nanophotonics group led by Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos to work on novel solar cell structures based on colloidal quantum dots.
Dr. Dane Austin holds a PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics from Oxford University, UK. He joins the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics group led by ICREA Prof. Jens Biegert to work on attosecond pulse generation, strong field physics and aspects of metrology.
Dr. Ossi Kimmelma holds a PhD in Science and Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He joins the group led by Prof. Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh to work oin the development of diode-pumped solid-state laser sources for the blue spectral range. He will study their deployment as pump sources for high-power continuous-wave optical parametric oscillators with wide spectral coverage across the visible spectrum for applications in spectroscopy, quantum optics, and biomedicine.
Mr. Louis Gaudreau is a PhD-candidate in Physics at NRC and University of Sherbrooke, Canada. He joins ICFO as a postdoctoral fellow in the Nano Opto-electronics group led by Prof. Frank Koppens to work on quantum mechanical phenomena in plasmonic structures and graphene.
Mr. Gonzalo de la Torre graduated in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2009. He made his Master studies at the QUANTOP group in Copenhagen under the supervision of Michael Wolf. He joins ICFO as PhD student in the group of Quantum Information Theory led by Antonio Acin. He will be working on the study of classical, quantum and non-signaling correlations and their application for information purposes.
Mr. Pablo Manuel de Roque joins ICFO after completing the Master in Photonics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He will work on control of spontaneous and stimulated emission in ordered and disordered nanostructures at he group led by ICREA Prof. Niek van Hulst.
Mr. Francisco Pelayo Garcia de Arquer graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Oviedo and has an MSc in Photonics at UPC/ICFO. Mr. Pelayo joins now the solution processed nanophotonics group led by Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos for a PhD in nanophotonics. He will investigate applications of optoelectronically active plasmonic structures for solar cells and ultra-sensitive optical sensing.
Mrs. Michela Badioli obtained her MSc. from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She joins ICFO as a PhD student in the Nano Opto-electronics group led by Prof. Frank Koppens. She will investigate strongly confined optical fields associated with a single layer of carbon (graphene).
Mr. Boris Albrecht studied Physics and Photonics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Strasbourg, France, and holds a MSc in nanophotonics from the University of Strasbourg. He joins ICFO as a PhD student in the group led by ICREA Prof. Hugues de Riedmatten. He will work on light matter quantum interfaces between single photons and single collective spin excitations in laser cooled atomic ensembles.
Mr. Eduard Benasques Borau is a student in Telecommunications Engineering at UPC, Barcelona, Spain. He will join the plasmon nano-optics group led by ICREA Prof. Romain Quidant to work on optical manipulation of nano-objects.
Dr. Tobias Fritz, Dr. Rafael Chaves Souto Araujo and Dr. Arup Kumar Rath
Dr. Dane Austin, Dr. Ossi Kimmelma and Dr. Louis Gaudreau
Mr. Gonzalo de la Torre, Mr. Pablo Manuel de Roque and Mr. Francisco Pelayo Garcia de Arquer
Mr. Eduard Benasques Borau